GUWAHATI, SEP 18: Yet again a doctor was assaulted by some unidentified miscreant in upper Assam Tinsukia district on Saturday.
The incident was reported from Kakopather Zonal Primary Health Centre in Doomdooma. The incident took place at around 7 pm.
According to CCTV footage the miscreant entered the hospital and assaulted the doctor identified as Dr Tikendrajit Sarma.
Talking to media persons, Dr Sarma said, “On September 17(Saturday), a patient namely Kalyan Gogoi had come for treatment whose right elbow was dislocated. After examining him, I immediately informed him that it can’t be treated in the Centre. He was in the hospital for half an hour. Later, a man came asking who is the doctor here and entered my room abused me and later he slapped me,”.
”I have worked for nearly 30 years and today I have been assaulted and beaten up. I am sad,” he added.
The doctor lodged a complaint with the Kakopothar police station after the attack on him.
Following the complaint, the police launched a search operation to catch the culprit.
This was not the first incident where doctor were attacked. Earlier, many such incidents was reported from various places of Assam.
In 2019, a 73-year-old doctor Deben Dutta serving as a medical officer at the Teok Garden in upper Assam’s Jorhat district was lynched.